7And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
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And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We have here, I. A prophecy of the binding of Satan for a certain term of time, in which he should have much less power and the church much more peace than before. The power of Satan was broken in part by the setting up of the gospel kingdom in the world; it was further reduced by the empire’s becoming Christian; it was yet further broken by the downfall of the mystical Babylon; but still this ser…
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